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Chinatown & the Jajangmyeon Museum, Incheon

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The rainy-day Incheon

Wet weather — a museum, a covered market and a noodle lunch. Timed from the gangway and back.

4 hr 30 min door to door6 stopsA wet day
Open the route in Google Maps, in 3 parts
Photo: Mobius6 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
4 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet weather — a museum, a covered market and a noodle lunch
Room to spare
None
What it costs
~₩30,000–40,000 per car
Taxis ~₩30,000–40,000 per car across the day. Museum ₩1,000.
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
Room to spare
Fits a 6.5-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.

Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

Open in Google Maps, in 3 parts

  1. 1Your ship → Incheon Chinatownby taxiGoogle Maps gives no walking or driving directions in Korea: Kakao Map · Naver Map app
  2. 2Incheon Chinatown → Sinpo International Marketon footKakao Map · Naver Map app
  3. 3Sinpo International Market → Back to the shiptrain or busKakao Map · Naver Map app · 인천항 크루즈터미널 · 인천광역시 연수구 국제항만대로 438

Google Maps on a phone takes three stops between start and end, and none on a train or bus route, so the day opens in parts. Each step below also has its own directions.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Taxi to Chinatown (~25 min)

    Or the city shuttle if it is running — ask at the terminal desk

    What you will see hereDirections from the ship (by taxi)Kakao Map · Naver Map app
    Chinatown & the Jajangmyeon Museum, Incheon
    Photo: Mobius6 / CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. +0:30
    The Jajangmyeon Museum

    Indoors, in the old Gonghwachun building; ₩1,000; closed Mondays

    The Jajangmyeon Museum, Incheon
    Photo: Mobius6 / CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. +1:30
    Jajangmyeon for lunch, a few doors away

    Sinseung Banjeom opens at 11:10 and breaks 15:00–16:30. The museum opens at 09:00, so on an early arrival leave the ship about 10:00 and keep this order

    Jajangmyeon where it began, Incheon
    Photo: 최광모 / CC0
  4. +2:30
    Walk to Sinpo Market (~10 min)

    Mostly covered; dakgangjeong to take away

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (on foot)Kakao Map · Naver Map app
    The gate of Sinpo International Market, Incheon
    Photo: Jjw / CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. +3:30
    Taxi back to the terminal

    ~25 min; the queue at the rank is the risk, not the drive

    Directions back to the ship (by taxi)Kakao Map · Naver Map app · 인천항 크루즈터미널 · 인천광역시 연수구 국제항만대로 438
  6. +4:05
    Back at the gangway
Would rather have it arranged?Private Incheon Shore Excursion: Chinatown, Markets & SeasideChinatown and Sinpo Market by private car, no taxi queues in the rain · from US$198 · 5.0★ — why we list it
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Incheon, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

Korean Emigration History Museum, Incheon
Korean Emigration History MuseumPhoto: Garam / Attribution
Bukchon Hanok Village, Incheon
Bukchon Hanok VillagePhoto: Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0
Wolmido & the Sea Train, Incheon
Wolmido & the Sea TrainPhoto: Trainholic / CC BY-SA 4.0
Seoul: Gyeongbokgung & Bukchon, Incheon
Seoul: Gyeongbokgung & BukchonPhoto: Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0
Songdo Central Park, Incheon
Songdo Central ParkPhoto: José Carioca / CC BY-SA 4.0
Bindaetteok at Gwangjang Market, Incheon
Bindaetteok at Gwangjang MarketPhoto: Pfc. Bo Park, 2ID PAO, US Army / Public domain
Other routes

The other routes in Incheon

Songdo Central Park, IncheonSongdo, close inNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hShort calls — the only sights near the terminalThe main gate of Incheon ChinatownThe old portNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5hThe Incheon day: Chinatown, jajangmyeon, the market and the harbourThe Throne Hall from the east, Gyeongbokgung Palace, IncheonOne Seoul clusterNeeds a 9.5-hour call · ~7.5hCalls of 12 hours (10 at the very least) — the palace and Bukchon, nothing else
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